Jason Towers

“The conservative, the slow-witted and the envious existed in every profession.”
― Julian Barnes, Pulse

“Peter Pastmaster and the absurdly youthful colonel of the new force were drawing up a list of suitable officers in Bratts Club.

'Most of war seems to consist of hanging about,' he said. 'Let's at least hang about with our own friends.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“I keep alive our lost private language.”
― Julian Barnes, Levels of Life

“Now I see my children and I know that they are figures in a lantern show, that their sense of permanence is an illusion, because all around us time is unstoppable.”
― Sebastian Faulks, On Green Dolphin Street